Hollywood films would have you believe that the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of ...
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...
The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.
“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...
In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...
February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...
AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch beneath the private ...
NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...
New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...